Josep Trueta

As a Catalan nationalist, he was forced into exile to England after the Spanish Civil War, during which he had been the chief of trauma services for the city of Barcelona. During World War II, he helped to organize medical emergency services there. His use of a new plaster cast method for the treatment of open wounds and fractures helped save a great number of lives during several wars.

Trueta formed part of a group of Catalans exiled in the United Kingdom who denounced the situation of Catalonia under Franco's regime. He wrote The Spirit of Catalonia, a book aimed at explaining Catalan history to English-speaking society.

He joined the team run by Florey and Chain that developed penicillin in Oxford, and held the first live animal to be injected with the revolutionary antibiotic.

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A couple was arrested for murder in the southwestern city of Krasnodar in Russia on Tuesday with local media reporting that the couple admitted to killing up to 30 people, according to BBCNews. Dmitry Baksheev, 35, and his wife Natalia, 42, were arrested after authorities discovered a dismembered body at the military base where they live ...The Russian interior ministry confirmed the man in the images had been identified and arrested....

"The club would like to thank the Manager, Assistant Manager, Josep Alcacer, and FitnessCoach, Jose Mascaros, for their hard work and dedication since they took charge of the Yellow Submarine last season and would like to wish them the best in their ......

>Madrid. Villarreal promoted B team coach Javi Calleja to the first-team boss on Monday following the sacking of Fran Escriba and his backroom staff ... "The club want to thank the coach, his assistant Josep Alcacer and fitness trainer Jose Mascaros for their work and dedication." ... View More. ....

Jeremy Mathieu believes he was unfairly singled out for criticism at Barcelona and would love to prove a point to president JosepMaria Bartomeu and technical director RobertFernandez when Sporting CP host the La Liga leaders on Wednesday. Mathieu moved to Lisbon during the off-season after an underwhelming three-year stint at Camp Nou, during which he announced his surprise retirement from international football ... ....

MADRID. Villarreal promoted B team coach Javi Calleja to first-team boss on Monday following the sacking of Fran Escriba and his backroom staff. A 4-0 thrashing at the hands of Getafe on Sunday left Villarreal just three points above the relegation zone in 14th with seven points from their first six games ... "The club want to thank the coach, his assistant Josep Alcacer and fitness trainer Jose Mascaros for their work and dedication." ... or....

Girona welcomed Barcelona to the Estadi Montilivi for the Catalan derby in La Liga - both of whom were playing their sixth game of the season. Girona went into the game following a mixture of results in their opening games. A surprise 2-2 draw against Atletico Madrid to start the season and a 1-0 win against Malaga to follow it up ... Barcelona, on the other hand, hadn't dropped a single point ... BBCSport ... JOSEP LAGO/GettyImages ... ....

Referendums are the blunt instrument of&nbsp;democracy, means that do not always will their expected end. Britain, surveying the inchoate aftermath of Brexit, is learning that the hard way. Catalonia may be about to learn it too ... That is much, much too simple. Observer atom ... But that is not present reality ... As Josep Borrell, a Catalan, socialist and former president of the European parliament, explained recently ... No dreams, please ... ....